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The Luxury Circle

Strategic location, old-world charm and dearth of other quality retail spaces in Mumbai is prompting luxury brands to set up shop ...

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to join Madonna at London concert

Rai, who will be joined by actor husband Abhishek Bachchan, has been confirmed as a celebrity presenter at the Chime for Change event on June 1

They found that patients who had asthma were 1.70 times more likely to develop sleep apnea after eight years

72% of respondents from India said they would provide more personal information to simplify management of finances

However, owner of several legal Nevada brothels Dennis Hof said many of his employees have LinkedIn accounts

British charter tourists were now a distant second as compared to the Russians, the new flavour of the season for the last five years

There must be few more pleasurable things to do than to sink back in a cozy chair and quaff off a tankard of frosty beer. Especially when it ...

From the mud baths of Turkey to the mineral springs in the Czech Republic, the author recommends some offbeat destinations for healing the mind, ...

The author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies prefers books with action

Report advises people to minimise their exposure to the chemical by avoiding nonstick cookware and packaged foods like microwave popcorn

These superbugs kill about half the people they attack, and nearly one in 20 hospital patients become infected with one

New research has identified markers in the blood that can indicate if the disease was starting to develop in the brain

The breakthrough creates the possibility of an inexpensive and simple-to-use tool that could have far-reaching benefits

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist provides a rivetting ringside view of the transformation of America's national security establishment after ...

Eric Hobsbawm's proud assertion that as an Englishman he thinks of South Asia when immigrant influences are being discussed

Inferno may become more popular than Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons because of the way the writer has reinvented the art of the novel

The new book by the prolific pair of Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya puts the word debunking in its subtitle and doesn't look back

Bookshops that arent really bookshops have an unmistakeable feel about them, like faux Italian cafes that serve butter chicken a la Tuscany.The ...

For all its noise about gender equality, the media seems reluctant to overstep the boundaries of regressive social norms

"Is the vomiting accompanied by cramps?""The patient's in the second stage of labour. She is waiting under the tallest neem tree in Kishanpura ...